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Rather simple. While any damage to Yamato accumulate, damage to one of Standards would not affect two others. Sure, Yamato concentrating fire on one Standard would inflict sigfnificant damage (maybe even knock it out). But Yamato would be also hit, and its vulnerable parts - fire control directors, superstructure, unarmored bow and stern - would suffer damage.


With her central fire control degraded, Yamato ability to dealt damage to remaining two Standards would be significantly decreased. While the other two Standards, not damaged and now facing little threat from Yamato fire, could pound her as hard as they wish. Yamato would be forced to either flee (assuming it could still maintain full speed - unarmored bow flooding due to HE hits may cause her to lose speed advantage), maintain safe distance (and succumb to accumulated damage from multiple hits, even if none would pierce her armor), or try to close distance to compensate for fire control degradation (and thus lose the invulnerability - on close distance 14-inch and 16-inch guns of Standards would be perfectly able to penetrate her armor).


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